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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 
House of Commons, Maucii 4tii. 
DISEASES AMONG CATTLE. 
Mr. TV. E. Forster brought in the Government Bill for con¬ 
solidating, amending, and perpetuating the Acts for preventing the 
spread of infectious diseases among cattle. He explained that, as 
regards the home trade, it would re-enact, almost as they stood, the 
present arrangements for “stamping out” the cattle plague, and 
would give some new powers with regard to sheep. It was also 
proposed to give the Privy Council power for checking other 
diseases besides the cattle plague, as well as the diseases of sheep 
and horses ; and it contained other provisions for regulating the 
traffic in cattle, and particularly for securing to cattle in transit an 
ample supply of water. As to the foreign trade, it transferred from 
the Queen in Council to the Privy Council the power of prohibiting 
the import of cattle from any country into any port, of stating from 
time to time the countries from which cattle might be brought, and 
of defining areas at ports into which cattle might be brought, but 
out of which they could not be taken alive. There were also pro¬ 
visions at which Mr. Forster glanced slightly for encouraging the 
formation of markets. 
Lord Robert Montagu approved entirely the first part of the 
Bill, but was convinced that the second part would not keep out the 
cattle plague. He urged that his and the Government Bill should 
be referred to the same committee. 
Mr. Gregory and Colonel Brise supported this suggestion ; and 
Mr. Headlam, Mr. Dent, Mr. Norwood, and Mr. Macfie advised the 
Government to push their Bill on with all speed. 
Wednesday, March 10. 
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) BILL. 
Lord R. Montagu, in moving the second reading of his Bill, said 
that a measure upon the same subject had recently been introduced 
by the Government; but the two bills did not trench upon the same 
ground, and he should have been glad if his measure had been 
treated as supplementary to that which the Government had brought 
forward. He was afraid, however, that the representatives of the 
administration in that House were not prepared to adopt the same 
view of the subject, and he should therefore submit his Bill to the 
House upon its own merits. It had been stated that it had been 
